Motor Install with Lift Plate on Intake?

The plate, studs and intake are plenty strong to pull an engine and transmission together. x2 when you consider each one only has to support a quarter of the weight.

I've probably been involved in over a hundred engine pulls with that arrangement and never had one problem, or even a damaged thread. Nor have I ever heard of anyone having a problem.

There was a study where they rigged up a way to pull on an engine until the plate failed. It took like 9000 lbs to cause a failure, and it was the eyelet where the hook attaches that failed, not the carb studs or aluminum intake threads....